Naval and Maritime Museums List

International (except USA)

COUNTRY

State, Province, Region, etc.

City

Museum name and location
Museum phone number and fax number
Web page address
Hours of admission
Fee or free
Ship name Class (CV, BB, etc.), number
Highlights

As you will see, I don't have all the information for all the
places, and I am always interested in reports of visits to these
places, so please EMAIL any reports, additions, corrections or updates
to me, Joe Poutre, joseph dot poutre at verizon dot net.

Note: Even if you don't think you have a maritime museum
nearby, check your phone book and local tourist information sources -
you might be surprised.

Disclaimer:
Some information here was confirmed and/or corrected using the Sea
Classics magazine annual Naval and Maritime Museums issue and
OPSail'92, the Official Magazine of Operation Sail.

Hobart, Tasmania

Freemantle, Western Australia

Western Australia Maritime Museum
Phone: (08) 9431 8444
FAX: (08) 9430 5120
http://museum.wa.gov.au/museums/maritime
http://www.duyfken.com/Dyfken Exploration ship (replica)
Leeuwen Ship
Ovens SS
Lady Forrest Steam Pilot Lifeboat
Doria Italian fishing vessel
Ancel Broom pearling lugger
More than 80 boats in the Historic Boats Collection.
Dyfken is a replica of the first Western ship known to visit Australia. Built by the Endeavour Replica Project, now sailing. Ovens is Oberon class, being used for training, and will be donated to the museum.

AUSTRIA

Grenburg

Oberosterreichisches Schiffahrtsmuseum
Small one floor museum located in a spectacular castle overlooking the Danube.

Vienna

Frederic Mistral Steam tug
Undergoing restoration

Pascal Steam tug
Restoration

Wachau

Schiffahrtsmuseum Spitz an der Donua
Phone: 02713/2246

BERMUDA

Bermuda, given its strategically important position between the
Carribean and Europe, has a large number of forts, ramparts, and gun
emplacements; over 60 total. Most are small with minimal or no
information, if they are even accessible. I have listed the most
interesting and informative here.

There are also several shipwrecks visible on the surface or just under, including former HMS Vixen off the west coast, and the Taifun in St. George's harbor.

Royal Navy Dockyard
The former British naval dockyard has been converted into a large
shopping plaza. In the midst of all the capitalism, there is a museum
on the maritime history of Bermuda, which is, given the geography of
Bermuda, a history of Bermuda itself.

Fort St. Catharine

St. George's, NE corner of the island
Large fort, built up over the 18th and 19th centuries. There are diorama showing a brief history of the colonization of Bermuda, the history of the fort, and a series of displays on the the construction and operation of the fort. There are also spectacular views of the sea, and a ghost.

Okanagan

St. Naramata Steam tug

Penticton

SWS Sicamous 1914 passenger vessel
Landed

Vancouver

Vancouver Maritime Museum
1905 Ogden Ave., north foot of Cypress St.
Phone: 604-257-8300
FAX: 604-737-2621
http://www.vancouvermaritimemuseum.com/Summer (Victoria Day to Labour Day) daily 1000-1700
Winter Tue-Sat 1000-1700, Sun 1200-1700
Admission charge
St. RochBen Franklin Submersible
RCMP vessel St. Roch transited Northwest Passage on two
occasions in WWII, including first successful Pacific - Atlantic
crossing, and was the first vessel to circumnavigate North America.
Look for the stuffed walrus.
Franklin is a mesoscaphe, designed by Jacques Piccard. It drifted the Gulf Stream in its one experiment.

U-521 Foxtrot class submarine

Victoria

Maritime Museum of British Columbia
28 Bastion Square
Phone: 250-385-4222
Daily 0930-1630 except Christmas
http://mmbc.bc.ca/Admission fee
Tilikum Modified Indian canoe
Tilikum was sailed from Victoria, BC to England on a westerly course from 1901 to 1904 by Captain Voss. They have placed in storage the ketch Trekka, circumnavigated the globe in 1955-1958 - the smallest vessel until that time to do so. Oldest operating elevator in North America.

Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse
Vancouver Island
603 Fort Rodd Hill Rd., off Ocean Boulevard
Phone: 250-478-5849
FAX: 250-478-2816
http://www.fortroddhill.com/Mar-Oct 1000-1730, Nov-Feb 0900-1430
Entrance fee
Modest national park with restored shore defences from 1890s to 1954, and nearby the first
permanent lighthouse on the west coast.
Home of the Royal Canadian Pacific Fleet

NEW BRUNSWICK

St. John

New Brunswick Museum
http://www.nbm-nmb.ca/Sites in English and French
Large collection of ships' figureheads, paintings, etc. During the
late 1800s, around a third of the wooden ships in Lloyd's Register had
been built in the St. John area.
Railway Coastal Museum
http://www.railwaycoastalmuseum.ca/

NEWFOUNDLAND

St. John's

Radio Museum - site of Marconi's experiments
Maritime museum - includes displays on pirates, including one John Paul Jones!

NOVA SCOTIA

Bridgewater

HMCS Fraser DDH 233

Cape Breton Island, Louisbourg (south of Sydney)

Fortress of Louisbourg
Phone: (902) 733-2280
Fax: (902) 733-3046
http://www.fortressoflouisebourg.ca/Reconstruction of 18th century French fortress and part of the surrounding city.

Halifax

Extensive information on the past and present ships of Canadian
Navy, including ensigns, colours, ships plaques, photographic archives,
uniforms, ships' logs. Just about anything relating to Canadian Navy
can be found with help from curators.

HMCS Sackville
Sackville Landing
1675 Lower Water St.
http://www.canadasnavalmemorial.ca/Admission charge
Hours: June-Oct 1100-1900 daily
Sackville Corvette
Sackville is the last surviving and actively commissioned
WWII corvette. Open for tours all summer. Funds are currently being
sought for further restoration of the engineering spaces. Originally a
"short-f'ocsle" corvette, she was refitted during the war - this
alteration is easily seen when inside the messdeck.

The Canadian Parks Service is nearing completion of restoration
of the substantial submarine mining establishment on Georges Island in
Halifax Harbour. The mine storage building, mine railway tracks and
turntable, mine assembly building and workshops have been partially
restored and stabilized. The site including its extensive underground
gun batteries may open to visitors, but only if Parks Canada finds a
private partner to run the interpretation side, as they say they can't
afford to open the site with their own resources.

Hamilton

HMCS Haida Naval Museum
http://www.hmcshaida.comHaida DDE 215
Ship saw much service in WWII and Korea. Only surviving Tribal
class. Manned by university students, and the current CO (Cdr Willson)
served aboard her as a young officer. She has more battle honours than
any Royal Canadian Naval ship before or since. Still used as a training
vessel for Royal Canadian Sea Cadets, who spend weekends aboard ship,
and during the summer the guns are fired every day at noon. The ship is
open as a museum.

Kingston

Marine Museum of the Great Lakes
55 Ontario Street, on the waterfront
Jan-Mar: Mon-Fri 1000-1600
Apr-Dec: Daily 1000-1700
A. Henry is open Jun-Aug daily 1000-1600
http://www.marmuseum.ca/Alexander Henry Icebreaker
Traditional boats, such as St. Lawrence skiffs and canoes.
Converted from shipbuilding structures. Exhibits on shipbuilding,
underwater archeology. Henry also serves as a bed and breakfast
from late May to Labour Day. Many models, plus workshops and a library.
Also a steam museum with marine and stationary engines and pumps.

Milford

Mariner's Park Museum
Junction of County Roads 13 and 9, South Bay, Prince Edward County
Phone: 613-476-8392
http://www.stormy.ca/marmusE-mail: museum@stormy.ca
0900-0500
Weekends from Victoria Day to Canada Day
Daily from Canada Day to Labour Day
Weekends from Labour Day to Thanksgiving
Retraces early maritime, cultural and shipping history -
particularly sail - on the Canadian Great Lakes. South Bay has always
been a safe haven for sailing ships when Lake Ontario "blows up". In
1967, the top of the False Duck Lighthouse (originally the oldest in
Prince Edward County, built in 1829) was reconstructed.

Ottawa

National War Museum
Sussex Drive
http://www.warmuseum.ca/Highlights of all Canadian involvement in military actions,
including artifacts, equipment from WWI and WWII. Special exhibit on
role of Canadian Peace Keeping Forces around the world. Big model of
the carrier Bonaventure.

Picton

Archives and Collections Society
http://navalmarinearchive.com/Not-for-profit foundation dedicated to maritime history and
conservation, marine research and nautical education. They hold
thousands of maritime and nautical documents, books, images, charts,
magazines, sound and video recordings and provide comprehensive marine
and nautical research capability.

Toronto

The Pier
45 Queens Quay West
Exhibition Place
Phone: 416-338-PIER or 800-675-7437
July/August - 1000-2000 daily
May/June/September/October - 1000-1800 daily
November to April - 1100-1700
Number of small watercraft in collection. Collection of marine
artifacts relating to the development of Toronto's waterfront.
Reproduction of a ship's radio office from the 1930's. Working ships'
whistles.

Sault-Ste-Marie

Wasaga Beach

Nancy Island Historic Site
Wasaga Beach Provincial Park
Phone: 705-429-2728
http://www.wasagabeachpark.com/Hull of the Nancy: built as a private cargo vessel in 1789;
pressed into British service as a supply ship during the War of 1812.
Burned during a battle on 14 August 1814. The hull was recovered in 1928.

YUKON

Dawson City

SWS Keno Steam passenger vessel
On land

Whitehorse

SWS Klondike 1937 passenger steamboat
Landed

CHILE

9 Region

Talcahuano

Talcahuano Chilean Naval museum
http://www.huascar.cl/In Spanish
Huascar Monitor
This turret ship belonged to the Peruvian Navy, but was captured by
Chile during the Pacific War (1879) during the Battle of Angamos. It is
one of very few classic ironclads afloat.

Valdivia

Spanish fort

Valparaiso

Vinja Del Mar

CHINA

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Maritime Museum
http://www.hkmaritimemuseum.orgHistory of shipping on the south China coast and the role Hong Kong
has played. More than 500 different exhibits on display, from a 2000
year old Han dynasty pottery boat to a video introduction of naval
architects' vision of the future of the ship. Historical and modern
ship models, paintings, ceramics, trade goods, interactive games.

COLUMBIA

Cartagena

CRETE

Chania/Xania

Maritime Museum of Crete
Phone: (0821)91875
FAX: (0821)74484
http://www.mar-mus-crete.grIn Greek, with an English secondary site
Nov-Mar 0900-1400, Apr-Oct 0900-1600, except public holidays
Admission fee
Housed in fortress FIRKA, built by Venetians starting in the 1200s.
Exhibits include many varied ship models, various instruments and
equipment, paintings, heirlooms, objects which were pulled up from the
sea bottom, potsherds, pictures.

EGYPT

Cairo

ESTONIA

Tallinn

Estonian State Maritime Museum
Wed-Sun 1000-1800
Phone: 641 14 09 (Intl. +372-641 14 09)
FAX: +372-641 14 14
http://www.meremuuseum.ee/et/
In Estonian
Summer: 1000-1800, winter 1100-1600
Lembit SS (Mine laying sub)
Suur T�ll Icebreaker
Mare Research ship
Lembit owned by Estonia, saw action under Soviet flag in
WWII. Built 1936 in England. Both museum vessels are in the Pirita port
outside Tallinn, while the museum itself is at the north end of town in
a 15th century cannon tower called Paks Magareeta, or Fat Margaret.
Mare is active and undertakes surveys using side scan sonar, and has found many wrecks for further investigation.

Helsinki, Hernesaari

Russian Foxtrot-class SS
Museum. In active service until sold to some Finnish businessmen. In full working order, bridge and tower closed.

Helsinki, Hylkysaari

Suomen merimuseo (Finland's Maritime Museum)
Phone: 90-66430
http://www.merikeskusvellamo.fi/
Site in Finnish and English
Mostly merchant history. On a island 3 km from Helsinki centrum - get there by ferry.

Maritime museum
Kemi Lightship
The last Finnish lightship.

Helsinki, Suomenlinna (Sveaborg)

Phone: 161 5295
http://www.suomenlinnatours.com/
Island Fortress, built 1750's. 2 km. from Helsinki Centrum, about
15 min by ferry. One of the largest sea-fortresses in the world, with
some 2,000 guns and 8,000 men. 20 kilometers of fortifications. Owned
by Russians 1808-1917. Some part of the islands, fortifications and
guns from that time period. Was attacked by England in the Crimean war
1854. Has also served as prison. There are 700 inhabitants living on
the islands. Protected by Unesco.

There are several museums on Suomenlinna:
Vesikko SS
Landed. Last survivor of 5 Finnish subs. Saw action 1939-40 and 1941-1944

Kokkola

English Park
Landing craft, captured during assault on port of Halkokari during Crimean War, is the only Royal Navy vessel still held as a foreign "prize".

Kotka

Provincial Museum of Kymenlaakso
http://www.kotka.fi/museo/museoalukset.html
(In Finnish, there is an English page also)
Tarmo Icebreaker
Served as a AA-ship in WWII, was hit by Russian bomber. World's oldest existing icebreaker.
Vmv 11 Patrol Motor Boat of WWII

Ruotsinsalmen museo
Museum of the Ruotsinsalmi Battles in 1789 & '90. Some 500
ships took part in the battles. In '89 Russia won, '90 Sweden-Finland
won. Russian lost 53 of 273 ships and some 9000 men.

Raahe

Raahen museo
http://www.raahenmuseo.fi
In Finnish
Small museum. 18th century diving suit, possibly oldest in the world.

Tampere

http://www.nasijarvi2.fi
In Finnish and English
Nasijarvi II Steam tug
She still sails, as long as you plan ahead.

Turku

This city hosts several museum ships.
http://www.forum-marinum.fi/en/exhibitions-and-museum-ships/museum-ships/the-suomen-joutsen-full-rigger
Sigun Sail Barque
Floating museum. One of the few wooden sailing merchantmen in the world.

FRANCE

Note: most of the web pages listed below are in French

Arromanche

Musee de Debarquement d'Arromanches
Phone: 31 22 34 31
FAX: 31 92 68 83
http://www.musee-arromanches.fr/accueil/index.phpSite is in many languages
Just down the road from Bayeux, at the beach. Part of floating
harbor is still there (it's *big*). Small museum with a film, scale
models showing how it was made.

Bayeux

Normandy Invasion Museum
On ring road around town, right across from the British Cemetery.
Much larger inside than it looks. Uniforms and equipment of all
principle militaries involved. Rather complete collection of small
arms. A separate wing has vehicles, including pieces of aircraft found
in the the Channel. Labeling is in French, but much of the material
(newspapers, manuals, posters, signs, etc.) is in English.

Le Mourillon

La Rochelle

Musee Maritime
http://www.museemaritimelarochelle.fr/
France 2 Meteo frigate
Calypso Science vessel
Alcyone Experimental/science vessel
Meteo frigates were stationed in the Atlantic to do meteorological work in the days before
satellites.
Calypso carried Jacques Cousteau and his crew on expeditions around
the world is in La Rochelle, France, where she will become a museum.
She was sunk by accident at Singapore in January 1996 and was donated
to the La Rochelle Musee Maritime as part of a U.S.$830,000 project.
Alcyone experimented with "turbosail" masts.
The museum also displays wooden sailing ships, Cousteau's famous
"yellow minisub", a tug, a trailer and various fishing related
artifacts.

Rochefort

Musee de la Marine
Ho de Cheusses
Place de la Galissonniere
Phone: 46 99 59 57
http://www.musee-marine.fr/rochefort
Nov 16 - Oct 14 Thu-Tue 1000-1200 and 1400-1800
Museum is housed in the former residence of the Admiral of the Fleet. Branch of the Musee de la Marine in Paris.

LOUIS XV double-drydock of 1728
Hermione Sail frigate (reconstruction)
http://www.actufax.com/ville/hermione/her01.htm/Reconstruction of the 1200 ton, 28 gun frigate, built in
Rochefort in 1778, that Major General La Fayette took to America in
March 1780, to help the Insurgents.

Corderie Royale
Here the various ropes, strings and lines for the French naval ships were manufactured and treated for new and refitting ships.

Musee de Medecine navale
25, rue amiral Meyer
There is also the library for School of Naval Medicine. It contains
historical texts. It is reserved for students and others doing research, so call ahead.

Bremerhaven

Schiffartsmueseum
http://www.dsm.museum
In German, with a page in English
Wilhelm Bauer, ex-U-2540 Type XXI
Seehund Mini sub
Rau IX Whaler
Bremer Cog
U-2540 was raised in 1957 by the company Beckedorfand. Sold to
shipyard Howaldtswerke, towed to Kiel. Completely repaired and refitted
by 1958. Given new Type class 241. 1 September 1960 renamed "U Wilhelm Bauer",
Nato "Y 880". Retired from active military duties 1968. On 20 May 1970
returned to active duty by a civilian organization for industrial
testing. Multiple accidents (primarily two collisions with destroyers)
made repairs of the boat too expensive, so re-retired 18 November,
1980. Sold to the Schiffartsmueseu 15 March 1982.
Walk-through tours are available.
The cog was recovered from the mud of the Weser River, and is being preserved.
Parts of submarines on display, such as a TDC and a scope. Many
models ships from sailing ships up to the modern frigates and
destroyers of the Kreigsmarine. It is advisable to go there between April and October because
only in this period is it possible to visit the ships and the subs,
since they are lying in a harbour basin and therefore are closed for
the public when it may be dangerous to visit them due to weather
conditions.

Dresden

Armeemuseum
http://www.mhmbundeswehr.de
In multiple languages
Brandtaucher Early SS
Built by Wilhelm Bauer in the mid-1800s.

Kwajalien Atoll, Marshall Islands

Prinz Eugen CA
Kwajelien Atoll is restricted - US Army's western ICBM test range impact area. The ship rests upside down on the lagoon side of Ennylabegan Island. The ship was fully outfitted for the A tests including full fuel load (which still leaks into the lagoon) and things like plates and dishes (original). (Yes, I know this is United States territory, but he was a German ship.)

Phaliro Bay

Poros Naval Base

Velos Destroyer, ex-USS CharretteUnder restoration.

HOLLAND

Amsterdam

Scheepvaartmuseum
http://www.scheepvaartmuseum.nl/Tue-Sat: 1000-1700, Sundays and public holidays: 1200-1700, Mondays mid-June to mid-September.
Closed New Year's Day and Queen's day (30 April).
AmsterdamFull-size replica of early 18th C Dutch East Indiaman, built from
original plans. Also a royal barge, paintings, models and other
historic and historical items.

Groningen

Rotterdam

Maritime Museum 'Prins Hendrik'
http://www.mmph.nl/Buffel Ramship
The collection information system of the Museum is available for
browsing. Information about the objects (in Dutch), images of the
objects (most of them photographs of the Nedlloyd collection), and
images of shipmodels.

Mumbai

Visakhapatnam

IRELAND

ISRAEL

Haifa

Clandestine Immigration and Naval museum

204 Derekh Allenby
Phone: 536249
http://www.ilmuseums.com/museum_eng.asp?id=7
In Hebrew and English
Af-'Al-PiThe museum is housed mostly in the ship, which ran the British
blockade before WWII to save Jews from Nazi Germany. The naval portion
of the museum has models of current and former Israeli navy ships, maps
and historical displays on wartime activities; and various memorabilia,
including the surrender flag from an Egyptian frigate captured while
trying to bombard Haifa in 1956.

ITALY

Albenga

Museo Navale Romano
Palazzo Peloso Cepolla
Piazza San Michele 12
Phone: +39-182-51215
http://www.iisl.it/musei/navale/naval.htm
In Italian
Closed on Monday
Wreckage and cargo of an ancient Roman ship of I century CE.
Also a reconstruction of such a ship.

Fiumicino (near Roma)

Museo delle Navi
Via Alessandro Guidoni
Phone: +39-6-6011089
http://archeoroma.beniculturali.it/museo_delle_navi
Closed on Monday
Remains of six Roman cargo ships. The museum is located at the entrance of Leonardo da Vinci International Airport

JAMAICA

Port Royal, Kingston

Old Naval Hospital

JAPAN

Chiba

JMSA PL "Kojima", ex-Shiga WWII IJN escort vessel
Used by US as ferry boat. Became a weather station. Now public hall of Chiba city in Japan.

Etajima

Naval Academy of Etajima
Yukizake's anchor and rudder. Probably the luckiest Japanese ship of World War 2 - battle record as long as Enterprise, and hit only once by a 13mm bullet. She was given to China as reparation, and served as Tang Yan until she ran around in 1971. Also, a turret and barbette from BB Mutsu, which blew up in 1943.

Huis ten Bosch, near Nagasaki

Dutch replica town
http://english.huistenbosch.co.jp
Site in multiple languages
Wapen Van Hoorn Wood paddle steamer (replica)
Kanko Maru Sail/steam (replica)
Kanrin Maru Sail/steam (replica)
De Liefde Sailing ship
Kanrin was Japan's first steam/sail ship. Kanrin Maru presented by King Willem III of the Netherlands to Tokugawa Shogun in the closing years of the Edo Period. Became the training ship for the newly established Nagasaki Naval Institute, from which many influential leaders of that time graduated.
Kanko was the first Japanese vessel to cross the Pacific, with Kaishu Katsu and other famous Japanese aboard. Sails for most of the year between ports all around Japan's coasts.
De Liefde, stranded in Japan in 1600, marking the start of the historical relationship between Holland and Japan. Aboard this vessel the musical show "Bon Voyage De Liefde" is staged.
The Amelia and two-story wooden paddle-steamer Wapen van Hoorn cross Omura Bay to connect Huis ten Bosch and Holland Village (Associated theme park of Huis ten Bosch)

Ishibonoku

San Juan Bautista Galleon (replica)
http://www.santjuan.or.jp/institution/park.htmlReplica of circa 1613 European-style galleon. Original was called the Keicho Diplomatic Mission Ship, built in Japan with Spanish assistance to carry diplomats to Europe for negotiations of trade.

Sasebo

Japanese Naval Academy

Tokyo

Shibauira Mari Steam tug

Museum of Maritime Science
http://www.funenokagakukan.or.jp
Wooden model of the Yamato outside ~60 feet long. Kawanishi flying boat. Also an early Antarctic research ship tied up there.

Yokahama

NYK Maritime Museum
in a former building of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha shipping company.
Hikawa-MaruPhone: 045-641-4361
Mon-Fri 0930-2100, Sat-Sun 0930-2130
http://www.nyk.com/rekishi/Admission: 800 yen
This 12,000 ton luxury passenger ship was nicknamed Queen of Pacific, operated 1930 to 1960. Interior is open to the general public and contains a restaurant. Served as hospital ship in WWII.

MALTA

Old Naval Bakery
On Grand Harbor across from Valetta
Malta's maritime history from early times to today.

National War Museum
Fort St. Elmo
Foot of Republic St.
Italian Explosive Motor Boat
Fuselage of the Gloster Gladiator Faith, and the George Cross and Citation awarded to the Island. Many naval photos and a section dealing with the Pedestal Convoy (Convoy of Santa Maria). Shut at 1400 in the summer.

MICRONESIA

Palau
Multiple, mostly Japanese vessels sunk during WWII, open for
diving. Site is managed jointly by the local government, the US Navy
and the US National Park Service.

Brandal

Ishavsmuseet Aarvak
Aarvak Wooden seal catcher

Detsund

Gahn Steam launch
Landed

Dr�bak, just south of Oslo

Coastal Batteries of Oscarsborg
The Krupp guns of 1893, Moses, Aron and Joshva, that helped sink the German cruiser Bl�cher in 1940. There are guided tours during the summer (July/August); contact the local tourist office.

Sandefjord

Stokmarknes

Tromso

Tirpitz Museum
Housed in an old ammunition bunker which was part of the German defences (battery Tromso south - 3x10.5cm). Mainly
photographs and a variety of salvaged fittings from Tirpitz. Early colour
photographs showing Tirpitz arriving, the old Norwegian CDBs (coverted to flak
ships) which screened her and Tirpitz exploding after the bomb hit to the
magazine.
The exhibition is mainly signed in Norwegian and German, but the
curator also speaks very good English (ex-Norwegian Navy man) and will show you
round.

Trondheim

Oerland
28cm gun towers
C turret from Gneisnau. Also on military area, access may be limited; contact local tourist office.

The Royal Norwegian Navy operates the museum vessel Hitra, a fully restored subhunter (ex-US SC 718), used for commando operations on Norwegian coast during WWII.

PAKISTAN

Karachi

Pakistan Maritime Museum
Habib Ibrahim Rehmatullah Road, Near Bahria Auditorium
Phone: (92-21) 4251687, 4942188
http://www.genesis-realtime.com/MUSEUM.HTMMinesweeper
Midget sub
Baghochan Traditional riverine boat
The vessels are anchored in a large artificial lake. The bagochan
was built on the museum grounds by artisans using only six tools. There
is a replica of the Manora lighthouse, a mock-up of a Daphne class
submarine's operations rooms, and a central building housing galleries
and naval artifacts.

POLAND

Gdansk

Gdynia

Sczeczin

Gryfia Rail ferry

Warszawa (Warsaw)

Polish Military Museum
Complete military museum, including naval displays. Has static
displays of aircraft, armor, artillery, naval weapons outside. Uniforms
and a Salyut inside. Inexpensive, plus a student discount. All labeling
is in Polish.

PORTUGAL

�lhavo

Museu Mar�timo e Regional de �lhavo
Avenida Dr. Rocha Mada�l
Phone and FAX: 351+034 321 797
Sun - Tues 1400 - 1730, Wed-Sat 0900-1230 and 1400-1730
Dedicated to the "Portuguese White Fleet" and the fishing industry
in Portugal and Aveiro region. Many artifacts from the fisherman: pilot
charts, stories from aboard, schooners' pictures, fishermens' pictures,
letters, ex-votos, objects carried from the places were they have been
like Greenland and St. John's of Newfoundland, compasses, ceramics,
anchors, artifacts from the Eskimos, etc. Also paintings with scenes of
the life aboard, the captains of the schooners, the life of fisherman's
families, and others.

Peniche

RUSSIA

Baltiisk

P-4 class torpedo boat

Irkutsk, Lake Baikal, Siberia

Angara Icebreaker
Built by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co; entered service autumn
1900, originally intended to provide service between Baranchuk and
Misovaya to form a link between the eastern and western portions of the
trans-Siberia railroad.

Kaliningrad

World Ocean Museum pier
B-413 Submarine

Khronstadt

Naval museum, on the base
Takes some doing to visit.

Moscow

Murmansk

Museum of the North Fleet
On ulitsa Tortseva at very north part of town not far from the Kola fjord. Very large and well kept collection of uniforms, ship models, parts of ships and old & new naval paraphenalia. Of interest is the collection of photos, uniforms and weapons relating to Soviet naval special forces during WWII.

Pereslavlalesskii

Wooden boat from Peter The Great's navy

St. Petersburg

Aurora Cruiser
Corner of Petrogradskaya Storona, on the Petrogradskaya Nab
Thu-Sun 1030-1630
Admission free
One of three surviving pre-Dreadnaught cruisers. Fired shot to signal storming of Winter Palace in 1917.
Phone: +7(812)556-5266, 356-5177
FAX: +7(812)328-2701
E-mail: museum@mail.admiral.ru
http://www.museum.navy.ru/f2e.htmWed-Sun 1000-1600, closed last Thursday of each month
D-2, ex-Narodovolet pre-WWII submarine
One of the first subs built by the Soviets.

Central Museum of the Navy
In old stock exchange

Severomorsk

Northern Fleet Museum
Phone: (815) 37 77124
K-21 SS
This legendary WWII veteran is on land in Severomorsk. Severomorsk special entrance permission may be required.

Vladivostok

SCOTLAND

SINGAPORE

Fort Soloso
Sentosa Island
History of British military presence.

Maritime Museum
Sentosa Island
Daily 0830-1700
Admission fee
A smallish museum with a collection of local small boats, and a large display on the modern port of Singapore. It has a Vietnamese boatpeople's boat in its sailing condition (i.e. not restored and looking like as nasty a thing to travel in as such boats were).

SLOVENIA

Piran

SOUTH AFRICA

Cape Town Harbour

South African Maritime Museum
Victoria and Alfred Waterfront
Phone: +2721 4192505/6
FAX: +2721 4197332
http://maritimemuseum.ac.za/Daily 1000-1700, except Good Friday and Christmas day
Somerset Boom defence vessel
Exhibits include several small vessels and other maritime history.

Naval West Yard
Assegaai, formerly SAS Johanna van der Merwe SS

Johannesburg

South African War Museum

Mossel Bay

Bartolomeu Dias Maritime Museum
Tel: 27 (0)44 6911067
http://www.gardenroute.net/mby/mbmari.htmMon-Fri 0900-1645, Sat, Sun & Public Holidays 0900-1600, closed Christmas Day and Good Friday
Caravel (replica)
Based on Portugese vessels of the 15th Century. Sailed from Portugal to Mossel Bay in 1987.
Also a shell Museum and aquarium.

Simon's Town

South African Navy Museum
The Old Sail Loft, West Yard
0900-1700 year round except Xmas day and one or two other public holidays.
Contains the displays from Fort Wynyard and Martello Tower, which
have been closed due to rationalization. For more information contact
Commander Mack Bissett, FPO, Simon's Town.

Cartagena

Peral Submarine
Launched Sept. 8, 1888. A remarkable example of 19th century engineering, fully capable as a warship. The submarine displays the lines of an Albacore hull and a small conning tower, along with a cruciform tail similar to most current subs. Named after her designer, Issac Peral.

Nya �lvsborgs F�stning (The New Ilvsborg Fortress)
Ferry from Packhuskajen, Lilla Bommen
Located in the entrance to the river Gotaalv. Successfully defended the city from naval attack during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Exhibitions includes display on Thordenskiold, the Norwegian naval
commander who led the attacks on Gothenburg, and museum covering the
excavations of the 18th century East India tradeship Gothenburg, which after 3 years in East India sank just outside the fortress.

THAILAND

Bangkok

TURKEY

Canakkale

Museum commemorating attempt by the British and French to force the Dardanelles in March 1915.
Replica of the Nusret, which laid the minefield that stopped the attempt.

Istanbul (not Constantinople)

Deniz Muzesi (Maritime Museum)
Near the ferry landing in the Besiktas section and on Cezayir Caddesi (Cezayir Street)
Phone: +90 (212) 261 00 40
FAX: +90 (212) 261 01 30
http://abone.superonline.com/~navalmuseumturk/index.htmKadirga Galley
Collection dates back to the naval exploits of Barbarossa. Many
exhibits and aritfacts covering the history of the Ottoman Empire and
the Republic of Turkey. There is a section of a U-boat that was
recovered from the Black Sea coast, and parts of the battlecruiser
Yavuz, ex-Goeben.

Mersin

Nusret Minelayer
Original vessel, in need of restoration. It will be restored by the nearby town of Tarsus.

Otchakov

TKA-383 G-5 class MTB

Sevastopol

TKA-52, TKA-725 G-5 class MTBs

Tcherkassi

BKA-41 Riverine armored cutter

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Ras al-Khaima

The Ahmed bin Majed Navigator Museum
Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Road
Open Afternoons 4-6 (usually), Not Friday
Small, private Museum; a collection of everyday articles of the
peoples of the Gulf (esp Ras al-Khaima) for whom the sea figured very
largely: the dividing line between maritime objects and land-based
objects is rather blurred.

UNITED KINGDOM

I have deferred this section to a site created by Drs. Janet West and M. H. Evans, a wife and husband team. Their site is very comprehensive, and brought up to date in 2015. It lists over 250 museums and 450 historic vessels (many are part of museum collections, and a large number are small vessels) in the British Isles, including Ireland. To save space I'll just give a pointer.